The Collector's Quest

The nicest sticker-sealed SMB, the earliest SMB prototype, and the grand prize Nintendo World Championships all recently sold or are for sale right now! Also there's a new Neo Geo thing we have to talk about to rage bait.

We are talking about the olden days of the DigitPress rarity guide and the whether Atari R10s (the rarest games on the scale) still matter in today's collecting world.

Is Resident Evil having a moment? Maybe? Kind of? Is Resident Evil always having a moment? We're talking about collecting RE games.

We're back! We're talking about what it's like shopping for games in Japan and news we missed like $275,000 manga sales and ridiculously perfect NES Punch Out prototype.

We're talking about a bunch of weird game-adjacent NES stuff, and it's only for the real ones. You know who you are. This episode is (not really) sponsored by Jeffrey Wittenhagen's book NES Oddities, which is a fun book that goes over a lot of this.

Johnny wants to talk about set collecting in 2026, so here we are. We're talk a bit about what sets you guys are collecting these days.

It's a shocker, I know, but me and Johnny will be collecting physical video games even though another year has passed. We're discussing the game collecting hits from 2025 and looking at the future.

We do our customary opening complaining about fantasy non-authors GRRM and Pat Rothfuss, followed by Johnny interviewing Tyler for a date or a job, I'm not sure which.

AUDIO QUALITY: Note this episode has subpar audio quality due to a recording issue. It's still might be fine for your car speakers on your holiday drive. To make up for this I released a CQAD episode publicly as well. Sorry, we didn't have time to re-record due to the holidays! This episode goes over psychological effects affecting collectors, straight from the renowned and widely read video game collecting textbook "Collectible Investments for the High Net Worth Investor".

It's the drive home from Thanksgiving and you're looking for a podcast. Are you going to put on an episode of Collectors Quest or what? It's the holiday gifts of 2025.